Finance Jobs in the North of England

Financial
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,019 2,807 3,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.39% 21.63% 16.46%
As % of the General category 23.14% 32.17% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 1,535 1,833
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,641 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% +0.08% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,433 £71,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,056 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.80% +2.88% +3.85%

All General Skills
North of England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,726 8,726 11,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 53.53% 67.23% 61.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,690 4,817 6,621
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,137 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +5.00% +9.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the North of England.

Salary trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -4 1,198 £55,000 -4.35% 309
Yorkshire -5 619 £57,965 +5.39% 146
North East +8 202 £49,274 -10.41% 66
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 75 (3.71%) SharePoint
2 49 (2.43%) Confluence
3 46 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (2.28%) SAS
4 27 (1.34%) Apache
5 18 (0.89%) IIS
6 17 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.54%) CMS
8 8 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.099%) nginx
10 2 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.050%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.050%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.050%) WordPress
Applications
1 241 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 180 (8.92%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.099%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.099%) Fusion 360
6 2 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (1.68%) NEC Housing
2 26 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 24 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.84%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.69%) iTrent
6 13 (0.64%) Infor SunSystems
6 13 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
6 13 (0.64%) Sage X3
7 12 (0.59%) SAP CO
7 12 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
8 9 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
8 9 (0.45%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.40%) BPCS
9 8 (0.40%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.40%) Sage 200
9 8 (0.40%) SAP IBP
10 6 (0.30%) SAP PP
10 6 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
11 5 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
11 5 (0.25%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 307 (15.21%) Azure
2 174 (8.62%) Power Platform
3 154 (7.63%) AWS
4 129 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
6 67 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (3.32%) Entra ID
7 51 (2.53%) GCP
8 37 (1.83%) Serverless
9 36 (1.78%) SaaS
10 32 (1.58%) GitHub
11 28 (1.39%) PowerApps
12 27 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 24 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 19 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
16 17 (0.84%) OCI
17 14 (0.69%) Azure Functions
17 14 (0.69%) Azure Storage
18 13 (0.64%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.27%) Firewall
2 49 (2.43%) Internet
3 39 (1.93%) WAN
4 36 (1.78%) LAN
5 31 (1.54%) VPN
6 22 (1.09%) Wireless
7 19 (0.94%) SAN
8 17 (0.84%) DNS
9 16 (0.79%) IPsec
10 15 (0.74%) SNMP
10 15 (0.74%) TCP/IP
11 14 (0.69%) Broadband
11 14 (0.69%) Network Security
12 13 (0.64%) DHCP
13 12 (0.59%) Software-Defined Radio
14 10 (0.50%) Ethernet
14 10 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (0.40%) NAS
15 8 (0.40%) WLAN
16 7 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.08%) Power BI
2 76 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (3.42%) SQL Server
4 57 (2.82%) Tableau
5 33 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (1.54%) Metadata
7 29 (1.44%) Data Lake
8 24 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.99%) Data Mining
10 20 (0.99%) MongoDB
11 18 (0.89%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 15 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
13 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.69%) Relational Database
15 11 (0.54%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 100 (4.95%) JIRA
2 59 (2.92%) Git
3 15 (0.74%) GitLab
4 8 (0.40%) RStudio
5 7 (0.35%) JMeter
5 7 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.30%) Appium
6 6 (0.30%) Selenium
6 6 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.20%) Postman
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.099%) JetBrains Rider
9 2 (0.099%) JUnit
9 2 (0.099%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.099%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.099%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.099%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.099%) WebDriver
General
1 731 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 296 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
3 255 (12.63%) Legal
4 226 (11.19%) Retail
5 184 (9.11%) Banking
6 160 (7.92%) Public Sector
7 104 (5.15%) Manufacturing
8 96 (4.75%) Marketing
9 87 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
10 84 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 69 (3.42%) Local Government
12 53 (2.63%) Law
12 53 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (2.43%) Billing
14 40 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.68%) Police
16 29 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.09%) Publishing
18 17 (0.84%) General Ledger
19 16 (0.79%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 320 (15.85%) Senior
2 308 (15.26%) Analyst
3 257 (12.73%) Lead
4 165 (8.17%) Developer
5 139 (6.88%) Architect
6 106 (5.25%) Business Manager
7 105 (5.20%) Development Manager
8 96 (4.75%) Consultant
9 92 (4.56%) Senior Analyst
10 87 (4.31%) Project Manager
11 83 (4.11%) Financial Analyst
12 79 (3.91%) Business Development Manager
13 53 (2.63%) Data Engineer
13 53 (2.63%) Senior Developer
14 51 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (2.03%) IT Manager
16 40 (1.98%) Service Analyst
16 40 (1.98%) Systems Analyst
17 38 (1.88%) Software Engineer
18 37 (1.83%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (4.66%) .NET
2 50 (2.48%) React
3 47 (2.33%) HTML
4 42 (2.08%) CSS
5 37 (1.83%) REST
6 32 (1.58%) ASP.NET
7 27 (1.34%) YAML
8 25 (1.24%) .NET Framework
8 25 (1.24%) Node.js
9 24 (1.19%) JSON
10 23 (1.14%) Web Services
11 22 (1.09%) PySpark
12 21 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (0.99%) ASP.NET Web API
13 20 (0.99%) Kafka
14 19 (0.94%) RESTful
15 18 (0.89%) .NET Core
16 14 (0.69%) ARM Templates
17 11 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
17 11 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
2 85 (4.21%) Management Information System
3 59 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 37 (1.83%) PMI
5 36 (1.78%) Credit Risk
6 35 (1.73%) NHS
7 34 (1.68%) Housing Association
7 34 (1.68%) Public Cloud
8 33 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 28 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 20 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 17 (0.84%) Mobile App
14 16 (0.79%) Social Media
15 15 (0.74%) FMCG
16 13 (0.64%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.64%) Driving Licence
16 13 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
17 11 (0.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 147 (7.28%) Windows
2 66 (3.27%) Linux
3 38 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (0.84%) Unix
6 17 (0.84%) Windows Vista
7 16 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
9 12 (0.59%) Android
10 9 (0.45%) Windows Phone
11 8 (0.40%) Solaris
12 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.25%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.050%) CentOS
14 1 (0.050%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.050%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (20.80%) Agile
2 354 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
3 350 (17.34%) Coaching
4 261 (12.93%) Mentoring
5 220 (10.90%) Business Intelligence
5 220 (10.90%) Project Management
6 208 (10.30%) Roadmaps
7 206 (10.20%) Customer Service
8 183 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 169 (8.37%) Decision-Making
10 163 (8.07%) Business Development
11 141 (6.98%) Data Governance
11 141 (6.98%) DevOps
12 140 (6.93%) Data Management
13 139 (6.88%) Analytics
13 139 (6.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 122 (6.04%) Risk Management
15 121 (5.99%) ITIL
16 120 (5.94%) Business Strategy
17 115 (5.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 315 (15.60%) SQL
2 157 (7.78%) Python
3 117 (5.79%) C#
4 90 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 80 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 44 (2.18%) TypeScript
7 34 (1.68%) Java
8 25 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 17 (0.84%) Bicep
10 15 (0.74%) R
10 15 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 14 (0.69%) Bash
12 12 (0.59%) C++
12 12 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (0.59%) PHP
13 9 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.45%) VBA
14 7 (0.35%) RPG
14 7 (0.35%) RPG IV
15 6 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 264 (13.08%) Degree
2 85 (4.21%) ACCA
3 84 (4.16%) Security Cleared
4 59 (2.92%) CIMA
5 54 (2.67%) DBS Check
6 49 (2.43%) SC Cleared
7 48 (2.38%) PMI Certification
8 33 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (1.63%) PMP
9 29 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.99%) CAPM
13 19 (0.94%) HND
14 18 (0.89%) HNC
15 17 (0.84%) APMP
15 17 (0.84%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.84%) PgMP
16 12 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.54%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 87 (4.31%) GDPR
3 76 (3.76%) QA
4 67 (3.32%) SLA
5 53 (2.63%) IFRS
6 44 (2.18%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.34%) GAAP
8 25 (1.24%) PMO
9 23 (1.14%) IFRS 9
10 21 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.50%) GRC
13 8 (0.40%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.30%) NIST
15 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 2 (0.099%) GMP
17 2 (0.099%) ITGC
18 1 (0.050%) EMIR
18 1 (0.050%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 122 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 37 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.58%) Docker
4 27 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 24 (1.19%) RACF
5 24 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.45%) Terminal Services
8 7 (0.35%) IAG
9 1 (0.050%) Firmware
9 1 (0.050%) KVM
9 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.050%) vSphere
9 1 (0.050%) XenApp
9 1 (0.050%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (2.28%) Terraform
2 34 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (1.34%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.19%) Ansible
5 21 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.89%) SCCM
7 15 (0.74%) vCenter Server
8 11 (0.54%) Grafana
9 9 (0.45%) AirWatch
10 8 (0.40%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.30%) Opsgenie
11 6 (0.30%) VxRail
12 5 (0.25%) Kibana
12 5 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.099%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.099%) Puppet
14 2 (0.099%) Rundeck
15 1 (0.050%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 418 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 100 (4.95%) SAP
3 71 (3.52%) Oracle
4 65 (3.22%) VMware
5 56 (2.77%) Google
6 52 (2.58%) NEC
7 44 (2.18%) CA
8 32 (1.58%) Virgin Media
9 25 (1.24%) Citrix
9 25 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 24 (1.19%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.19%) Informatica
10 24 (1.19%) Sage
11 22 (1.09%) Palo Alto
12 21 (1.04%) Cisco
12 21 (1.04%) NetApp
13 18 (0.89%) Salesforce
14 17 (0.84%) Databricks
15 16 (0.79%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.74%) Atlassian